SOUTH WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP — Parkland School District has managed to balance its 2016-17 budget, but leaders say they'll continue to try to whittle down the tax rate before the final budget in June.

John Vignone, Parkland's director of business administration, presented the latest budget numbers during Tuesday's school board workshop. A handful of spending adjustments emerged from a May 5 budget seminar with the school board and district administration.

Though the district managed to close a $1.1 million budget gap, taxpayers will still likely have to fork over 3.76 percent more in property taxes to fund the $166 million spending plan.

Superintendent Richard Sniscak said the district will do whatever it can to "try to mitigate any impact to taxpayers." The tax rate increase exceeds the 2.4 percent cap after the district received Act 1 Index and special exceptions from the state.

The 3.76 percent increase would bring the millage rate from 14.35 to 14.89. For a home assessed at $200,000, that would mean $2,978 in taxes or roughly $108 more than last year. The final vote on the 2016-17 budget is slated for June 28.

School board member Barry Long expressed disappointment that the district wasn't able to make greater cuts to the tax rate. He said he hoped the district would have done more to bring the increase down to the 2.4 percent cap.

"I guess I just have to express my disappointment about where we're at," Long said.

Revenue adjustments made to balance the budget included an additional $205,005 in real estate revenue, $185,000 from a real estate transfer tax, $6,565 in 2015-16 state aid and an expected $210,000 from the state for the 2016-17 school year.

The district will also be pulling $6 million from its $28.5 million fund balance to bring revenues in line with expenditures. The district trimmed $479,822 from its spending by scaling back on equipment and supplies, adjusting health care costs and rotating teachers to avoid $35,700 in pension payments.

Vignone highlighted budget areas still under review in the hopes of turning up more revenue or finding additional areas to cut. Among those are personnel reductions through retirements and a potential bond refunding.

The school board will vote Tuesday on the proposed budget with the final vote slated for June 28.